mid-teenn.adj.
/mɪdˈtiːn/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˈtin/ A. n. In plural.
1. The middle range of a series of years (of a person's age or of a century), temperatures, or monetary values numbered between thirteen and nineteen.
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1954 William & Mary Q. 11 180 In the years immediately following the Union, imports averaged a mere 1,450,000 pounds per annum; this had only become 2,500,000 by the mid-'teens.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Jan. b2 West Virginia: Today—Snow, highs in 20s, lows in mid teens.
1989 Milling & Baking News (Nexis) 16 May 1 As a group, their combined earnings growth rate is expected to be in the mid-teens this year.
1991 Euromoney Jan. 46/3 UK investment trusts trade at discounts to their book values, typically in the mid-teens.
2000 Guardian 11 Feb. (Friday Review section) 6/3 The massive engineering project that brought water to LA from the Owens River Valley in the mid-teens.
2. spec. The middle of a person's teenage years.
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1964 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 51 234 In his mid-teens he moved to a nearby city.
1975 Newsweek (Nexis) 1 Sept. 43 A lower-middle class kid who..split from his parents in his mid-teens when they moved to California.
1996 Cycle Touring & Campaigning Apr. 59/1 By their mid-teens the majority of school bus users can't wait to get their hands on the keys to a personal set of wheels.
B. adj.
Of or designating the mid-teens, esp. the middle teenage years; (of a person) in the mid-teens.
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1979 Amer. Banker (Nexis) 25 June 3 A reacceleration of the annualized rate of growth from the midteen area to 20% to 25%.
1982 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 42 502 Slaves of both sexes in the mid-teen ages.
1988 K. Logan Paganism & Occult (BNC) 93 The otherwise lonely mid-teen years were made bearable with the presence of Terry.
1994 Guardian 16 Sept. (Friday section) 12/5 Three mid-teen brothers.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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